Joy another thought, I once heard that having not too many eggs might make them individually stronger. So the fact that you had slightly lower numbers, but still 10 embies is LOADS, might well be to your advantage. Hand-hold.
Also, I didn't mean to say you shouldn't feel like that. I did the same. I just find it easier not to, so tried to find a way with some help from SB. Hand-hold!
How annoying you're not allowed to go to blast mrsd. I'd be unhappy about those laws! Although my frosties were frozen at day 4, and that seems to work quite well, you don't need to go blasto before freezing, but I am sure you know that.
Rabbit and mrsd I'll think positively for both of you. It's so much easier if it is not about you, your dreams and wishes. I think most of you will get that take-home-baby. It is just so bloody frustrating the route there is unpredictable and incredibly hard.
I actually had a really good chat about that aspect of it all with a friend, who's not been through this, but instead through a diagnostic endless trajectory with their little boy (now 2) not to find anything wrong in the end. But when the boy was a few months old, he was predicted to die before his first birthday. In the end all was well, but the first years of his life were so tough on his parents. The friend said, dealing with it all becomes so much easier with hind sight, but the uncertainty and the dependence on physician's evaluations were horrible.
AFM I still feel crap, which is a shame for the poor student, who's thesis I am commenting on. I am less nice and supportive in my comments
but I can read it, which didn't happen on Friday, so I think things are getting better!